1955 - 1956 AD

                                                                                                                                     "John A. Costello still Irish Prime Minister."                                                      

1955 AD Thomas Mitchell who was from Mid - Ulster and Philip Clarke who was from Co. Fermanagh, and South Tyrone, who were 2 Irish Republican candidates were "elected" to the British Westminster Parliament for the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, which were still under the control of the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government, although they were both still in Crumlin Road Prison in Belfast for raiding a barracks at Omagh in Mid - Ulster Province and 50 % of the "vote" there from the Catholic Irish went to the "political" Sinn Fein Party, and the "Anti - IRA" was to then "lose" several of their best men trying to "free" them from the prison, and both were then "disqualified" for being "convicted felons." There was also a crackdown on the "Anti - Treaty IRA" activities by the Irish Republic Government, but later on Bernadette Devlin would still be "successful" in the elections for a seat there.

     The Saor Uladh the "military" wing of of the "political" Fianna Uladh Party (Warriors of Ulster) was limited to the territory of it's founder, Liam Kelly of Pomeroy in Co. Tyrone in Mid - Ulster Province one of the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, who was also a Senator in the Irish Republic and the "Official" Unionist Stormont Parliament there, and the Saor Uladh was to be responsible at this time for carrying out a "protest" action by mining the "Official" Unionist RUC police barracks at Rosslea in Co. Fermanagh in the south - west of the Ulster Province.

July 4th: The "Anti - Treaty IRA" also tried to create another "protest" action by carrying out an "explosion" at the Stormont Parliament itself in another of these 6 Counties near Belfast in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province, but the "bomb" went off prematurely and "killed" their own driver.

November 30th: John A. Costello the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of the Irish Republic let the British Imperial Government know that he considered the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province were still part of the Irish National Territory and that it was their "fault" for "artificially dividing" Ireland in the first place for the purposes of the Ascendancy that was continuing to be the cause of the present "Troubles"and he also informed them that the Irish Government would do it's part to endeavour to stop the "unlawful activities" of the "Anti - Treaty IRA," but there would be no question of "handing over" any person accused of armed political activities.

    Sir Anthony Eden became the new British Conservative Primer Minister of Britain until 1957.  

1956 AD The population of the Irish Republic was now at 2,898,264.  

February 12th: The Catholic hierarchy in Ireland "outlawed" all illegal organizations, and it was now costing the Irish Republic Government 350,000 pounds a year to maintain their Security Forces against the "Anti - Treaty IRA," and John A. Costello the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) was against the "Anti - Treaty IRA" campaign that was being carried out and this caused a "division" between the various Coalition Government members of the Fine Gael Party, and the Clann na Poblachta Party under the leadership of Sean Mac Bride who "pulled out" of the Coalition Government with his members bringing on another election. Eamonn de Valera as the leader of the "Opposition" met with members of the "Anti - Treaty IRA" who wanted to do something "constructive" about removing the "artificial border" and the "artificial partition" of Ireland and he told them that it would never happen by "force of arms."

    Alfred Byrne the Lord Mayor of Dublin in the Irish Republic, died, and Robert Briscoe who was a Jew was elected to the position and would be again in 1969.

June: Joseph Christle was "outed" from the "Anti - Treaty IRA" and his supporters left with him.

August: Joseph Christle made an agreement with Liam Kelly and the Clann na Gael / The Organization in America to support their continued "action" against the "artificial border" dividing Ireland and they were to then conduct their activities "there" basically on their "own initiative" in these 6 Counties there in the north of Ireland until 1962.

    John A. Costello the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland reaffirmed the Irish Republic's position that the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province would always be a part of Ireland and would never be a part of England. 

November: The "Anti - Treaty IRA" took a vote to begin a campaign in the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province for the "reunification" of Ireland and on Armistice Day they "burnt" the Customs Huts for 150 miles along the "artificial border" while carrying out 12 attacks.

December 12th: The "Anti - Treaty IRA" Army Council now reached a decisive stage against the British Imperial Government's Ascendancy rule in the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province by calling on the British Imperial Military Forces and the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist RUC "B" Specials to cease being tools of British Imperialism, and "Operation Harvest" then occurred with 4 mobile columns of 25 men sent out to carry out "raids" there on their bases in Co. Armagh, Co. Fermanagh and Co. Tyrone in these 6 Counties with the fifth column in reserve. There had been 6 raids on the "artificial border" prior to this date, and the "Anti - Treaty IRA" were now finally ready to begin their raids in earnest in a campaign in the north there to "harass" the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist R.U.C. police and their "B" Special police hoping to draw in the British Imperial Military Forces, during which time 3 "splits" were to occur in the "Anti - Treaty IRA" organization and 11 "Anti - Treaty IRA" and 6 Ascendancy "Official" Unionist R.U.C were"killed" and 32 were injured. Some of the "Anti - Treaty IRA" were also "captured," and over the next 2 weeks there were further raids on their Customs huts, and B.B.C. Relay Stations were to be blown up. A B.B.C relay station at Rosemount near Derry was  destroyed, a "B" Special hut at Newry was burnt, the Courthouse at Magherafelt was also burnt, and the Army Drill Hall was mined at Enniskillen. An Ascendancy "Official" Unionist RUC Barracks was besieged and a bridge blown up, while the Belfast to Dublin railway line was cut, and a number of the "Anti - Treaty IRA" were "captured" and interned in Belfast. The "Anti - Treaty IRA's" 12 Flying Columns raids on the Customs and Ascendancy "Official"Unionist R.U.C. posts with 150 - 200 members along the the "artificial  border" was to last until 1962, but they were in unfamiliar territory. John A. Costello the (Prime Minister) Taoiseach of the Irish Republic "reinforced" the number of Garda / Irish police along the "artificial border" and they made many "Anti - Treaty RA" arrests and while the Catholic Irish there were "apathetic" to it all, the non - Catholics were naturally "hostile" and also the Ascendancy "Official " Unionist R.U.C. police forces there had "better" communication equipment the "Anti - Treaty IRA."     

     At this time the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government in the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province had at their disposal 2,800 of their R.U.C. police plus 1,000 full time "B" Special police and 11,600 part time " reserves" to take on the "Anti - Treaty IRA" there in these 6 Counties..     

      Meanwhile in America, the Clann na Gael / The Organization who were made up of what was left of the Sean Russell pro - monument group were now also "split."

December 15th: The British Imperial Conservative Government introduced the "Special Powers Act" for the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government to "arrest and intern without trial" in the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province.

December: 19^th: Anthony Eden the new Conservative British Prime Minister reaffirmed the N.I. 1949 Act  over the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, and they increased the child payments for each child after the second, which the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government in the Stormont Parliament "changed" to the second and third child, not the "rest," to ensure that the benefit did not go to the Irish Catholics there who had much "larger" families, but the "Presbyterian General Assembly" came out and "supported" the Irish Catholic communities' complaint of "blatant sectarian discrimination" against the "larger families," and the Ascendancy "Official" Stormont Government then had to give way and allow the benefit to all of these children in these 6 Counties.

"December 22nd: The Ascendancy "Official" Unionist R.U.C police and the British Imperial Government Military Forces now "blew up" the bridges and the roads along the "artificial partition border" in the Ulster Province, and from this year 335 Irishmen were to be "interned" there with 204 charged and 113 imprisoned up to 1962, and also it was now "costing" the British Conservative Government 500,000 pounds a year to maintain all of their Military Security Forces in these "artificially partitioned" 6 Counties in Ulster Province and the "Anti - Treaty IRA" were now to go into "recess and quieten down" over the Christmas period.

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